National-Socialist Extermination Policies

by Herbert, Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9781571817518
• ISBN10: 1571817514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Moving beyond the well-established problems and public discussions of the Holocaust, this collection of essays, written by some of the leading German historians of the younger generation, leaves behind the increasingly agitated arguments of the last years and substantially broadens, and in many areas revises, our knowledge of the Holocaust. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on whether the Holocaust could best be understood as the "fulfillment of a world view" or as a process of "cumulative radicalization, " these articles provide an overview of how situational elements and gradual processes of radicalization were variously combined with ever-changing objectives and fundamental ideological convictions. Focusing on the developments in Poland, the Soviet Union, Serbia, and France the authors find that heretofore we have actually had very little knowledge of many aspects of this history, particularly with regards to the specific forces that motivated German policy in the individual regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Thus the National-Socialist extermination policy is not seen as a secret undertaking but rather as part of the German conquest and occupation policy in Europe.

Author Biography

Ulrich Herbert is Professor of Modern History at the University of Freiburg.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Contributors	xx
Extermination Policy: New Answers and Questions about the History of the ``Holocaust'' in German Historiography	1	(52)
Ulrich Herbert
``Jewish Resettlement'': Reflections on the Political Prehistory of the Holocaust	53	(30)
Gotz Aly
The Murder of Jews in the General Government	83	(21)
Dieter Pohl
Anti-Jewish Policy and the Murder of the Jews in the District of Galicia, 1941/42	104	(24)
Thomas Sandkuhler
The German Military Command in Paris and the Deportation of the French Jews	128	(35)
Ulrich Herbert
The Extermination of the Jews in Serbia	163	(23)
Walter Manoschek
The National Socialist ``Solution of the Gypsy Question''	186	(24)
Michael Zimmermann
German Economic Interests, Occupation Policy, and the Murder of the Jews in Belorussia, 1941/43	210	(30)
Christian Gerlach
The War and the Killing of the Lithuanian Jews	240	(36)
Christoph Dieckmann
In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Murder of the Jews of East Upper Silesia	276	(30)
Sybille Steinbacher
The Concentration Camp SS as a Functional Elite	306
Karin Orth